Archive timeline
2001
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2001, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2001
- JUNE 14, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The official Saudi Press Agency reported a Saudi man...
The official Saudi Press Agency reported a Saudi man was beheaded for stabbing dead a compatriot during a fight after the two left school
- JUNE 14, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
The European Union commissioner for external affairs...
The European Union commissioner for external affairs Chris Patten called on the Palestinian Authority to stop using fast-track security courts to impose death sentences
- JUNE 14, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Nagoya High Court sentenced two men to death for...
The Nagoya High Court sentenced two men to death for double murder and robbery in 1994 and 1995
- JUNE 14, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Azizullah Shenwari, 14, was sentenced to death on drug...
Azizullah Shenwari, 14, was sentenced to death on drug charges
- JUNE 14, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia executed eight...
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia executed eight men on the Afghan-Tajik border in full view of Russian border guards, a Russian military source in the Tajik capital Dushanbe said
- JUNE 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A delegation of the European Parliament PES Group visited...
A delegation of the European Parliament PES Group visited China at the end of May, on the invitation of the Communist Party and the Chinese Government
- JUNE 13, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
John Wheat was executed by lethal injection
John Wheat was executed by lethal injection
- JUNE 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The leader of a grave-robbing gang that blasted its...
The leader of a grave-robbing gang that blasted its way into a 2,000-year-old tomb was sentenced to death by a Henan court
- JUNE 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eight members of the largest-ever organised crime ring...
Eight members of the largest-ever organised crime ring in Gansu province were put to death
- JUNE 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Gansu Provincial Higher People's Court maintained the...
Gansu Provincial Higher People's Court maintained the original jurisdiction and ordered the execution of "principal gangsters", Li Jie, Li Hui and six other gangsters including Cui Zhibiao and Ding Li
- JUNE 13, 2001BurundiDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that criminal courts across Burundi,...
It was reported that criminal courts across Burundi, notably in the towns of Bujumbura, Gitega and Ngozi sentenced a total of 20 people to death in the month of May alone, for manslaughter
- JUNE 13, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister John Howard said that Australia was...
Prime Minister John Howard said that Australia was unlikely ever to reintroduce the death penalty
- JUNE 12, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
MP Bernard Birsinger presented a bill for the institution...
MP Bernard Birsinger presented a bill for the institution of the international day against the death penalty
- JUNE 12, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese industrial trainee was sentenced to death...
A Chinese industrial trainee was sentenced to death by an appellate court in Seoul for two counts of murder and eight counts of robbery
- JUNE 12, 2001South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese industrial trainee was sentenced to death...
A Chinese industrial trainee was sentenced to death by an appellate court in Seoul for two counts of murder and eight counts of robbery
- JUNE 12, 2001FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Jeb Bush approved a law that bans executions of...
Gov. Jeb Bush approved a law that bans executions of mentally retarded prisoners. On May 4, the House passed the bill 110-1
- JUNE 12, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Fuzhou (Fujian Province) Municipal Intermediate People's...
Fuzhou (Fujian Province) Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zheng Ping, the female director of the Fuqing Customs Office, to death for accepting bribes of 898,000 yuan, 4,000 Hong Kong dollars and 89,000 yuan worth of valuables
- JUNE 12, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China, which executes more people each year than any...
China, which executes more people each year than any another country, was restrained in its reaction to America's execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on June 11
- JUNE 12, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Jeremy Sheets, has been released from Nebraska's death row
Jeremy Sheets, has been released from Nebraska's death row
- JUNE 11, 2001Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
Oklahoma city bomber Timothy McVeigh was put to death...
Oklahoma city bomber Timothy McVeigh was put to death by lethal injection at the Terre Haute federal penitentiary in Indiana at 7a
- JUNE 11, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Human Rights Association Istanbul Branch demonstrated...
The Human Rights Association Istanbul Branch demonstrated in protest of the execution of Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh
- JUNE 11, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China's highest court and prosecutor's office have...
China's highest court and prosecutor's office have issued a legal interpretation permitting use of the death penalty and harsh anti-subversion laws to punish followers of the banned Falun Gong, in a decision that may signal a new round of trials of group
- JUNE 11, 2001ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain militants protested against McVeigh's...
Hands Off Cain militants protested against McVeigh's and Garza's execution in front of the American embassy in Rome
- JUNE 11, 2001DEATH PENALTY
President Bush said: "the death penalty should never...
President Bush said: "the death penalty should never be applied to any individual who is metally retarded"
- JUNE 11, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Timothy McVeigh pronounced dead at 14:14 CET
June 11, 2001: Hands Off Cain protested at the American embassy in Rome against the first federal execution in the United States in 38 years.
- JUNE 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In a nationwide order to local law-enforcement agencies...
In a nationwide order to local law-enforcement agencies the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate broadly reinterpret murder and subversion statutes for use in prosecution of Falun Gong adherents
- JUNE 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Foshan Intermediate People's Court, sentenced to...
The Foshan Intermediate People's Court, sentenced to death five out of the 15 members of a gang convicted of running drug laboratories and selling more than 100,000 tablets of Ecstasy in Guangdong
- JUNE 8, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Swedish Presidency of the EU, represented by Council...
The Swedish Presidency of the EU, represented by Council President Anna Lindh, outlined, during the meeting with the head of Chinese diplomacy Tang Jiaxuan in Beijing , the Union's grievances - torture, death penalty, police brutality, barriers to freedom
- JUNE 8, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
A 37-year-old man stabbed eight children to death with...
A 37-year-old man stabbed eight children to death with a kitchen knife and injured 15 other people, including two teachers, at an elementary school in Ikeda in the Osaka Prefecture
- JUNE 8, 2001SpainDEATH PENALTY
A Spaniard who had been on Florida's death row since...
A Spaniard who had been on Florida's death row since 1997 after being convicted of a double murder was been acquitted in a new trial